Everyday Mindfulness

Hi, sounds like you've bought the digital version of Finding Peace in a Frantic World. I've found it a useful course, thought it took me longer than eight weeks to complete. It's often been said in this forum that the paper version is better because there is a cd of guided meditations with it - the ...

Hi Fee, I don't know anything about JOT, but it seems a great time if year to take pleasure in what is going on in nature; the worlds seems awash with bird calls, motorcycles, wind noises, the feel of the wind one moment and then the warmth of the sun or maybe hailstones. I spent today in the garden...

Well, after several weeks stumbling about in the dark, I finally got the principle of turning towards difficulties :D one of the issues was that I found it difficult to sit through meditations 4 & 5 and then go on to six - had a lot of back pain, but this has faded now. I had expected that the p...

This happened to me three years ago, long before I'd heard of Mindfulness, so I've only just put a name to it. I'd left it late in year to harvest our blackcurrants, it was a heavy crop and the jam pots were waiting. So, dressed in shorts, t-shirt and sandals, I hit the garden on a hot late summer d...

Thanks for the above replies, you guys have given me a fair amount to consider. My inner voice has been pretty negative, both towards me and others, for a long time, and I think I was falling into a trap of tending to answer in kind. This week I've been trying to develop a more neutral response - bu...

Hi Jon, thanks for your reply, it helps to know I'm on the right path as this is all fairly new to me. One thing I wonder about recently is do we need to be gentle when dealing with a wandering mind - a lot of the course talks about gently leading the mind back to the point of focus. However, I find...

I had an interesting experience today; the part of the sounds and thoughts meditation that asks you to see you thoughts as events that pass bye has been difficult because, in meditation mode, I don't get many thoughts. However, today I was able to separate myself from thoughts and was able to sense ...

Not a good week; I found the meditation very difficult and knew by Wednesday that I will need to go to a second week, but then it's not a race. Finished the week with a two day migraine that made meditation unthinkable, so planning to restart week five tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Hi, this is day one of week five for me. I think I was right to do week four twice, because I now feel ready for week five. Today, like others, I found it difficult to access physical responses to focussing on difficult issues, although I do get strong physical responses to stressors outside meditat...

I didn't get around to using music to provide sound, I started to leave a window open and benefited from birdsong, wind, rain, cars passing and even the odd dog barking in the distance. I'm glad that I repeated week four and now feel more ready to move on to week five. I'm also glad I found this for...